GPS-equipped FineDrive iQ500 PMP proves Korea's awesomeness once more
By Darren Murph 
posted March 4th 2009 8:49AM
posted March 4th 2009 8:49AM
[Via Akihabara News]
posted March 4th 2009 8:49AM
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The GPS in this unit finds shortcuts you'd never have imagined, which would save petrol (gas for the linguistically challenged), which saves oil.
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North Americans are too busy worshiping Apple to realize the rest of the world has much more to offer, at a much lower price. That's why.
I agree...people here drool over iTouch which is 'funny' somehow.
is not 'funny'.... is 'funnest'.... if that ever makes any sense.... i still dont find wats the big idea on the itouch.....
An answer for 'one question : Oil Save"
They say the PMP finds gas stations with the cheast price tags for users. That should be called 'Money Save', and shows current state of traffics, also.
while GPS with PMP capability has been around in states for long time?
Oh really? I must've missed it, because most of the GPS' I see/own have no proper PMP capabilities.
Having a MP3 player doesn't equal PMP.
Are you talking about Garmin's gps units which have mp3, photo and video playback capability, and cost $800-$900??
Most people I know have no idea these devices exist. When they see things like my Archos they are just amazed. It's sad that Microsoft and Apple force feed the same dull crap to us(it's probably just soylent green). I would whole-heartedly welcome more devices like this.
Peepul?
"Oil Save" hahaha.. well don't be surprised. Korean PMPs have a habit of putting silly phrases on the front. My Viliv P1 has "Unlimited Excitement" printed under its screen!
Why can't we have these in the States?
No BLUETOOTH????!!!!!
If it had I would have ....
First of I think that the ability to make an decent electronic device still doesn't warrant the statement 'awesomeness' for a whole country
And secondly I think the reason why it's all so hard is the million and one patents and licenses you need to get to play even basic audio on a device let alone video, and perhaps some journalist should bust all that stuff open, because I would not be surprised that they for instance make trouble about allowing MP3 etcetera playback if you also support opensource formats, and crap like that, and that it's not just licences but also protectionism of governments that creates a ton of rules we almost never hear about but suffer under nonetheless.
Kind of a bummer that the resolution on the 7" screen is the same as the Cown and Archos' 4.3" screens. Then again, Archos' 7" is also the same resolution.
And I thought my Cowon iAudio X5's "Color Sound' was weird. Oil save? WFT.
All those fancy sports-car pictures make me want one! Looks like a pretty slick unit.
So close but so far.
The Archos still has oodles more storage and a good 5" screen version.
Too bad the sound quality of the Archos isn't good.
May be the writer wants to move to his "awesomeness Korea" once and for all! One way ticket, of course!